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Old 07-16-2007, 04:08 AM   #1
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Here is the deal...I am getting ready to put up webmail system for usage by my system users. However I am running into a problem. Problem is I dont want to have too many phsyical users on the system for security reasons and risks. So I was trying to find out if there was a way to create perhaps some virtual user where there is a physical email box or virtual email box of some sort on the server. I dont want to create a physical user and set the shell to nologin as I again im trying to avoid adding a user account. This account should be allowed to check the email through the webmail client but only should be able to receive email to his/her domain and not from system domains meaning they shouldnt be getting emails from @server1 or @server2 but only getting emails instead sent to their account@theirdomain.com ?? Anybody following me and know how to arrange this (seems to be complicated process) please let me know! I gladly apprecaite any and all help I get on this issue! Thanks!
 
Old 07-16-2007, 04:38 AM   #2
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Check following links :
http://howtoforge.com/virtual_users_...ix_debian_etch
http://howtoforge.com/fedora_virtual..._quota_courier
http://iain.cx/qmail/mysql/configuration.html

Please specify which mail server/OS, you are using.
 
Old 07-16-2007, 04:41 AM   #3
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I am using sendmail/dovecot with an installation of MailScanner, ClamAV and SpamAssassin on CentOS 5.0 operating system.
 
Old 07-16-2007, 05:17 AM   #4
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Check for virtusertable and aliases files in Sendmail configuration.
http://www.faqs.org/docs/linux_network/x15291.html

Check following links for available patches :
http://freshmeat.net/projects/sendmailmysqlmap/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sendmail-sql/
 
  


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